Michael Menakis, an 18-year-old freshman at the College of New Jersey and former Northern Highlands Regional athlete, died weeks after he was found injured at a campus parking lot, authorities said.

He had been in a coma with severe head injuries since a suicide attempt on April 30, his family said. Menakis was an accounting major and member of the men's basketball team and Sigma Pi fraternity, college president R. Barbara Gitenstein wrote in a message to students and staff.

A funeral mass is scheduled for Thursday at 11 a.m. at St. Luke's Roman Catholic Church in Ho-Ho-Kus. In lieu of flowers the family asked for donations to the Boy Scouts Post 54 Scholarship or the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

Friends established a Go Fund Me page for the Menakis family to help pay for travel, lodging and medical expenses while Menakis was hospitalized. The fund had raised more than $27,000 as of Tuesday morning.